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A STORY OF OPPORTUNITY 

'"pHIS booklet is designed to describe the 
■*• training given in the University of Ore- 
gon. Particularly is it addressed to the 
graduates this year from high schools in this 
and neighboring states and to the parents of 
those graduates. Naturally, the emphasis, 
in these days of world crises, is on training 
for war activities. The University is now in 
a position to give the various sorts of train- 
ing which make for useful military service, 
as thoroughly as any institution in the West. 
For the women, courses are available which 
fit them for auxiliary service in war and also 
to take the places of men in several skilled 
lines of employment. Training for the arts of 
peace has by no means been weakened, and 
the University remains a well-rounded edu- 
cational force. Attention is directed to "Or- 
egon for Women/' a companion booklet is- 
sued for young women students. 



PUBLISHED BY THE 

University of Oregon 

Eugene Oregon 



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OREGON BATTALION COLOR PARTY 

Party shown on drill field, with colors during parade. On right is Oregon's battalion standard, designed by the 

University art department and made by the women of the University. The seal of the University of Oregon 

furnishes the design for the center of the silken banner. 



D. of B. 
AUG 28 1918 



Training Needed to Win 

THE call of the hour is for trained service. Every 
young American is facing the question, How can I be 
of the most use to my country in this, her time of 
need? The universities and colleges of the United States 
are helping answer that question. As in the days of peace, 
the university is the mother of great leadership. In the 
development of a supply of officers to command the vast 
armies which America has already thrown into the western 
war zone and those which she must continue to throw there 
until the final victory is won, the institutions of higher 
learning have lived up to their best traditions by taking 
the lead. 

The war department has developed its policy of estab- 
lishing Reserve Officers' Training Corps in the universities 
of the land. From these organizations have already come 
and will continue to come the great body of the younger 
officers whose skilled leadership is doing so much for the 
success of American arms in France. The older officers 
themselves are college men of an earlier day — West Point 
graduates picked in most cases from among first and sec- 
ond year students in the colleges of the land. 

It has been demonstrated a thousand times that pure, 
naked valor will not win this struggle. Untrained heroism, 
no matter how gallant, is "magnificent, but it is not war." 
The trained, efficient machine is necessary to success. And 
the only hope for the development of such a machine is in 
the output of the nation's educational institutions. The war 
department recognizes this, and is anxiously encouraging 
the younger men to stay in college and prepare themselves 
for the wider and more useful service to which they will 
yet be called. There is only one road to useful service and 
promotion during this war, and that road is training. This 
the university offers, in a system worked out under the 
plans of the war department. The young American who 
does not avail himself of the opportunity for this greater 
service must admit to his own conscience that he is content 
to do less than his full share in this war. 



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LOOKING SOUTH FROM VILLARD 
Students on move between classes. In foreground, ivy-clad Villard hall; in background, library; historic Deady 
hall, pioneer University building, between. 



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The University of Oregon is now the seat of a United 
States Reserve Officers' Training Corps and by the opening 
of the fall term will also be the home of a Cadet Corps or- 
ganized under the direction of the war department. From 
the Reserve Officers' Training Corps the men are sent di- 
rectly to army camps and cantonments for the finishing 
work which, in the case of those fitted, makes them officers 
in the United States army. The Cadet Corps is designed 
for the younger men. Between the ages of 18 and 21 the 
men enlist in the cadet corps, which is considered a part of 
the military organization of the country. They carry their 
regular college work along with their special military train- 
ing and on reaching the age for army service they receive 
furloughs to permit them to finish their courses. On com- 
pleting their work they are received into the army, where 
their training assures them special opportunity for lead- 
ership. Similar opportunity to complete their courses is 
offered medical students and those pursuing special lines 
of science. The details of these plans are described in other 
bulletins published by the University, and information will 
be sent anyone on application to the Registrar. 

On the entry of the United States into the world war, 
the University of Oregon immediately undertook the estab- 
lishment of compulsory military training for all its male 
students. A fair beginning was made in the closing weeks 
of the second semester of 1917. Drill in the rudiments of 
military training was given, and many men who there re- 
ceived their first insight into army work are now serving 
the country in France. In the summer of that year, with 
the certainty of at least one year of war in prospect, steps 
were taken to form a full department of military science. 
Seeking the best man available to direct this work, the 
University got in touch with the British and Canadian war 
offices. The name of Lieutenant Colonel John Lead- 
er, of the Royal Irish Rifles, whose regiment had been cut 
to pieces on the Somme and who had himself been inca- 
pacitated for further service at the front, was placed be- 
fore the University authorities. The next few months saw 




OUT OF THE TRENCHES AND AT 'EM 

Upper picture shows detachment of student battalion in practice rush "over the top." Since the picture was taken 

several have gone to officers' training camp at American Lake to carry still further their preparation for service. 

Bayonet practice with dummy "Huns" is shown in the other two pictures. 



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the gradual unwinding of the necessary red tape which 
finally released Colonel Leader, and the opening of the 
winter term in January, 1918, saw him on the campus 
ready for work. With more than twenty-three years of 
military experience in many parts of the world, this thor- 
oughly trained soldier soon threw something of his own high 
spirit into the Oregon battalion. Morale was developed, 
and in less than a month the Colonel was able to praise the 
men for their fine response to his training. 

Besides the usual drill and theoretical study of military 
tactics, practical work was given in the handling of the 
problems of modern warfare as seen by this man direct 
from the front. The University has now a complete trench 
system which is an exact copy of those on the western 
front. The whole system was built by the men of the bat- 
talion under conditions of winter weather strongly sug- 
gestive of those in Flanders as Colonel Leader had seen 
them. Practice in bayonet work, bomb-throwing and other 
details of western European warfare also is given. Prob- 
lems given the battalion to work out in the field are dis- 
cussed in the lecture room. A class in field engineering 
lately completed the building of a portable military bridge, 
plans for which have been taken by the American, Cana- 
dian and British war offices, preparatory to the use of the 
bridge on the west front. The structure, designed by Lieu- 
tenant E. H. McAlister, who is professor of mechanics in 
the University, is praised by Colonel Leader as better for 
its purpose than anything he saw while in France. 

No course in the University is unaffected by the war 
conditions. Special attention is now given to mathematics, 
knowledge of which is so necessary to the army officer, par- 
ticularly in the artillery. In chemistry, physics, geology, 
zoology, commerce, architecture, and even in English lit- 
erature, economics and history, courses have been worked 
out which are of either direct or indirect use toward the 
winning of the war. The whole University has been en- 
listed in war training to a degree which would hardly have 
been thought possible a few short years ago. 



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TRAINING IN OREGON'S TRENCHES 
Members of Oregon's student battalion are here seen on the firing step of a sector of their extensive trench system. 
Barbed-wire entanglements can be seen in right foreground of two of the pictures. One of the views shows the men 
aiming at assigned object; in the other two the men are seen hurling hand grenades. The Oregon men have been 
instructed in the art of throwing these bombs — which are handled in a different manner from most missiles, and 
they have developed very fair form, in the opinion of their instructors. 



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And it is not only the courses for the men which have 
been fitted into the country's war needs. The work which 
is largely or exclusively for women, such as household arts, 
has been built up with the idea of doing everything pos- 
sible for efficient home service. The food conservation 
courses in the University are given in accordance with the 
directions and advice of the national food administration. 
Young women are trained with the double purpose of mak- 
ing themselves more efficient and economical housewives 
and of instructing others in that patriotic work. Next term 
the work of the department is to be considerably widened ; 
work in textiles is to be introduced under the direction of 
experts and every effort made to assist in the economy and 
food-saving campaign so vital to the winning of the war. 
In the School of Commerce, courses have been introduced 
for the training of women to replace men in numberless 
well-paid clerical positions in the civil service. 

All this is in addition to the regular University courses, 
which are even stronger than ever. The war has had the 
effect of producing more serious work on the campus than 
ever before. The training for peace as well as for war is 
carried on intensively. 

But the University is stressing not only training, but 
education. Broad foundations are laid on which the young 
man and woman may build the later training and which 
fit their minds to grapple with emergency. The thing that 
distinguishes an educated from an uneducated man is the 
way the cultivated mind meets emergency. The man of 
special training without general education may go far 
along his narrow line, so long as conditions are just what 
he is used to. But a sudden change, an emergency, often, 
finds his mind totally unprepared to meet the new and un- 
expected. That is why there is so much room at the top 
of many professions for the man of broad education who 
is able to transcend his own experience whenever it may 
become necessary. 

The value of a college education is no longer open to 
question. Statistics of "Who's Who In America" give the 
comparative standings in cold type of the college-trained 




EVOLUTION OF PORTABLE MILITARY BRIDGE 

Pictures show growth of military bridge invented by faculty officer in student battalion. Gradual development of 

the bridge is shown in the above sections of the bridge "movie." Plans of this bridge have been obtained by the 

war offices of three allied nations for use on the west front. The structure spans the mill race north of the Music 

building, where it was erected by a detachment of the student soldiers. 



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and the untrained man. "Who's Who" is a book made up 
by business men which lists and sketches briefly" the careers 
of Americans who have achieved distinction in business, the 
industries and the professions. The edition for 1900, con- 
taining about eight thousand names, shows the following 
relative standings: 

In the Ratio per 
Education Population Book 100,000 

Uneducated _'. 5,000,000 31 00 

Common School 33,000,000 808 2.45 

High School . 2,000,000 1,245 62.25 

University 1,000,000 5,768 576.80 

Similar results were obtained from a study of the 1911 
edition, with about twice as many names. A study of a list 
of the wealthiest men in the United States in 1908 showed 
that, in proportion to the total number in America possess- 
ing a college education, 277 times as many college men, 
amassed great fortunes as did men of less than college 
training. 

Statistics gathered from 100 business houses show that 
during a period of several years about 90 per cent of the 
college graduates employed rose to high salaries and impor- 
tant positions, while only 25 per cent of the non-college men 
achieved a similar degree of success. 

All this deals solely with the material side of the ques- 
tion. From the standpoint of cultured enjoyment of life, 
of course, there is nothing that can be said in favor of fore- 
going college education. 

Military Science and Tactics 

/ ~PHE Military Department of the University of Oregon 
is a United States Reserve Officers' Training Corps, 
organized under act of Congress and the regulations of the 
War Department, with Colonel W. H. C. Bowen, U. S. A., 
retired, in charge, to train students to become commissioned 
officers in the United States army. In addition, the War 
Department will establish at the University in September 
a unit of the newly announced student training corps 



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OFFICERS OF STUDENT BATTALION 
Here are shown battalion staff, captains and lieutenants of companies in University military-training 

organization. 



of the United States army. These two units will be co- 
ordinated. All male students will be enrolled in the Re- 
serve Officers' Training Corps (R. 0. T. C), but only those 
who desire to enlist immediately need enroll in the student 
training organization. Members of the latter are accounted 
regular members of the armed forces of the United States ; 
members of the former assume no obligations, but are of- 
fered the opportunity to become candidates for commis- 
sions. 

United States commissioned and non-commissioned ar- 
my officers are assigned by the War Department to partic- 
ipate in the training of the students. At the request of 
the University authorities, the Government of Great Britain 
also recommended to the University a distinguished officer 
of 23 years' service in the British regular army and he has 
been in charge of military instruction at the University 
since January 1, 1918. This officer, Lieutenant Colonel 
John Leader, late commanding the Sixteenth Royal Irish 
Rifles, has seen service in many lands, has at different 
times commanded military units of seven different nation- 
alities, and has held important staff and line positions in 



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England, Ireland, India, China, Japan and other parts of 
the British Empire. He was invalided home after the reg- 
iment he raised in the North of Ireland had fought for two 
years on the western front and had been virtually annihi- 
lated in the battle of the Somme. 

Besides government equipment of rifles, bombs, bayo- 
nets, etc., and the uniforms furnished to students by the 
government, the University has an elaborate system of 
trenches, the exact replica of those found in France and 
Flanders, and the University Battalion has constructed mil- 
itary bridges, bayonetting frames, bombing cages, and other 
apparatus used in training. Eight hours a week is re- 
quired of all male students. 

Mathematics 

'""pHIS is a war of mud, munitions and mathematics," 
wrote a young Oregon man who is now an officer in 
the American army in France. This particular officer, in 
a letter to his former mathematics professor in the Uni- 
versity of Oregon, expressed his satisfaction over the fact 



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OFF TO TRAIN FOR SERVICE AT FRONT 

Oregon's First Class of Officers for Training Camp, photographed just before their departure for Camp 

Lewis. Uniformed figure in center is Colonel Leader, commandant. Two other battalion officers in 

upper left. Other twelve are the men about to depart for the camp. 



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ON PARADE 
Two views of section of Oregon battalion. Upper: In column of squads 



Lower: Platoon formation. 



that he had prepared himself properly while here for the 
exactions of range finding and other problems of ballistics. 
This hard, prosaic and unspectacular work, done years ago 
on the campus at Eugene, is now of the greatest utility in 
making American shots count in the war for the rescue 
of civilization. Trigonometry is the minimum mathemat- 
ical basis for advancement as an army officer in the all- 
important branch of artillery. The University of Oregon 



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will give whatever courses are demanded for the work of 
army officers. In fact, there are now given in the class- 
rooms at Eugene, more courses in mathematics than are 
offered either in the military academy at West Point or in 
the naval academy at Annapolis. All the courses offered 
at either of the government academies are available at 
Oregon, and several others not given at either are offered 
at this institution. 




ADMINISTRATION BUILDING 
Scene in front of Johnson hall, with University service flag of 700 stars, in center. 




TWO "LABS" CROWDED WITH STUDENTS 
Laboratories of physics and chemistry departments shown full of workers. Upper picture, physics lab; 

lower, chemistry. 



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17 



"Every shot," according to the officer quoted in the fore- 
going, "is a result of calculations of the greatest nicety." 

The American navy has become the most accurate in 
its gunnery of any in the world, and this result is attrib- 
utable in part to the superior training in mathematics 
given in American universities. The University of Oregon 
is well abreast of the best in this line. 




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GEOLOGY INDOORS AND OUTDOORS 

One of these views shows geology students working among the glass cases in Condon geological museum. 

Outdoor pi&ure portrays two students busy on lesson in topography. 



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Chemistry 



CO important is chemistry to the war purposes of the gov- 
ernment that the war department has announced a plan 
of permitting men of draft age to remain at their studies 
in this subject provided their work indicates their services 
will later be valuable. This is done through enlistment in 
the chemical engineers' reserve. The members of this or- 




CULTIVATING BACTERIA AND ANALYZING FLOWERS 

Pictures show sections of bacteriology (lower) and botany laboratories. Women are taking more than 

usual interest in these sciences this year. 



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ganization are f urloughed on reaching draft age until their 
chemical studies are completed. 

The need for chemists in connection with munition- 
testing has become acute. German frightfulness must be 
combated by men who know both the use of poison gas and 
how to defeat it. 

And all this on top of the regular peace needs for chem- 
ists. The nation is demanding more, and still more, chem- 
ists. The universities are striving manfully to meet the 
demand. The University of Oregon is well equipped with 
laboratories, materials and apparatus for the thorough 
study of this important branch of peace and war science. 

Courses are offered beginning with the freshman year 
and running into the post-graduate period. One entire 
floor of McClure Hall and parts of two other floors are de- 
voted exclusively to chemistry laboratories, lecture rooms, 
store rooms, consultation rooms and offices. The high qual- 
ity of the instruction is attested by the success in after life 
of the department's graduates. 

Simply to recount the names of the chemistry courses 
is to give an idea of the wide scope of the work offered. 
Courses are scheduled in general, analytical, organic, phys- 
iological, advanced inorganic, advanced analytical, indus- 
trial and physical chemistry, electro-chemistry, and sani- 
tary chemistry. Besides these there is a course for teach- 
ers, and for graduate students work is offered in advanced 
theoretical chemistry, and there are war courses in elemen- 
tary chemistry of explosives and in ordnance chemistry; 
while the laboratory is open for research and thesis work 
by graduates. 



Zoology 



/BOURSES in zoology are essential to the student expect- 
ing to fit himself for the practice of medicine. These 
war times have enormously enhanced the importance of the 
physician and the surgeon, who have so large a part in re- 
ducing the wastage of war and in increasing the physical 
efficiency of the whole population for service either at the 



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SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 

New quarters of University School of Medicine, on Marquam hill, Portland, will be opened in fall term. 



front or behind the lines. The courses in the department 
of zoology prepare the student to enter directly into the 
University school of medicine in Portland. The study also 
has great value on its purely cultural side. Courses are of- 
fered in invertebrate and vertebrate zoology, comparative 
anatomy, histology, vertebrate embryology, and physiolo- 
gy. Government positions are opening to students trained 
in these subjects, and the field is widening particularly for 
women. Field and marine zoology and bird study are some 
of the practical, appealing phases of the work. The study 
of fish and their habits is of particular interest in this part 
of the country, with its great fishing industry. 

A laboratory equipped with microscopes, models and 
other apparatus, also a well-stocked museum, are availa- 
ble, offering tempting facilities to the advanced student 
pursuing original work. 

University of Oregon graduates in zoology have made 
a great name for themselves in Eastern institutions by rea- 
son of their thorough preparation. 



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Geology 



JUST how valuable geology is in time of war is best un- 
derstood by the expert, but the merest layman can grasp 
in large measure the importance of this science to the mil- 
itary commander. 

"The ground on which the army camps, the ground 
which it traverses, the rocks on which heavy guns are 
placed, and the roads over which these heavy guns must 
be hauled ; the ground in which trenches, tunnels and other 
openings for protection or storage are dug ; the water sup- 
ply for the army, and many other subjects, are important 
matters in determining the success of military operations, 
and in most of them the geologist has a special knowledge 
which can be of use to army officers," says one authority. 

The close connection between this knowledge of geol- 
ogy and the safety of the army is grasped by the higher 
command, which has placed trained geologists with the 
different army units. The outcome of a battle or even of 
a whole campaign may depend on the correct interpreta- 




AFTER ASSEMBLY 
Students pouring out of Villard hall at 1 1 o'clock, after the regular Wednesday assembly. 




TESTING MENTAL PROCESSES 

Students in psychology making tests of mental responses to stimuli. These exoeriments are part of the daily 

routine of the psychology laboratory. In many of these, stop watches are held to keep track of speed of response. 

Psychology is becoming more and more of a practical science. 



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tion of a geological situation. A heavy gun placed on the 
wrong sort of ground, picked by men not geologists famil- 
iar with various formations, may therefore lack just the 
percentage of accuracy which would insure its effective- 
ness. The saving of money and life in the location of 
trenches and tunnels in the proper sort of formations is 
often possible through the use of geological intelligence. 
Map making and reading is another branch of army work 
in which the trained geologist is skilled. The contour map 
of a locality carries a message to the geologist which is 
missed largely or entirely by others. This is often of mil- 
itary advantage. In the movement of men on the march 
the officer who is a trained geologist can look ahead through 
a pair of field glasses and pick out passable routes by a 
combination of his trained observation with his geological 
sense. 

Aside from its military significance, geology is as useful 
as ever to the student of science. It stands in close rela- 
tion to astronomy in giving the history of the universe. 
Civil life has many positions for the trained geologist, not 
only in mining, but in other lines of industry. It is indis- 
pensable to the field engineer. Teaching positions are 
available to a growing number of experts. 




UNIVERSITY ORCHESTRA 

Much is accomplished for the general standard of musical appreciation on the campus as well as for the 

training of the members, by the University orchestra, whose playing is a feature of the commencement 

exercises and of some other formal occasions. The annual concert given by this organization is received 

with enthusiasm by music- lovers of both campus and town. 




PRACTICAL TRAINING IN JOURNALISM 
Lower view shows students in mechanical department of school of journalism. New Optimus press seen in upper 
right. In upper picture students are shown actually preparing copy for the University newspaper, The Emerald. 



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The University's course in military geology deals spe- 
cifically with the application of geologic data, processes 
and principles to military operations. Among the details 
inquired into are water supply, drainage, foundations for 
guns, road-location, material for trench-digging; topog- 
raphy ; sources and kinds of material which can be used for 
concrete and road-metal ; kinds of material as it affects the 
rate and cost of tunneling through. It can be seen that this 
course carries possibilities of the highest practical value 
to the young man training for a commission in the army. 



Botany 



T IKE geology, chemistry and physics, botany and bacte- 
■ riology are of prime importance in peace and war. The 
practical importance of botany, even for war, may be re- 
alized by a survey of some of the courses offered in the 
University of Oregon. In medical botany a course is given 
which includes a study of some of the more typical medici- 
nal plants, powdered drugs and adulterants; economic bot- 
any includes the biological examination of water, the bac- 
teriology of milk, feeds, etc. Bacteriology is practically 
indispensable to pre-medical students, whether they are to 
be army surgeons or aim to follow their vocation in civil 
life. General biology and sanitary hygiene are branches 
of botany and bacteriology whose practical usefulness is 
obvious. Adequate laboratory facilities are offered for the 
study of all these subjects. The herbarium has the largest 
collection of plant specimens in the Northwest. 

Perhaps the vital importance of bacteriology in war 
time is too little realized. Always before the Russo-Jap- 
anese war, disease had cost more soldiers' lives than had 
bullets. The scientific Japanese, with their knowledge of 
bacteriology and their scrupulous cleanliness, changed all 
this. Their victory is often attributed to this very thing. 
Bacteriology, in modern warfare, is rated as almost equally 
important with artillery science ; and its greatness in peace 
is well known. At this very moment there is demand in 
the government service for many trained bacteriologists. 



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WAR GARDENING ON THE CAMPUS 

Two views of the workers from Hendricks hall preparing the land for the sowing of the seed in the vegetable 

garden in front of the women's hall of residence. The work looks a bit intensive, with so many girls on 

such a small piece of ground, but perhaps the girls are only obeying the request of the photographer to 

group closely so he can get them all in the pidture. 



Physics 



P HYSICISTS have made their place in the war-torn world. 
Electricity is playing its part in the development of the 
war machinery which is to make the world safe. And in 
the great electrical plants which are becoming so vital a 
part of the country's physical equipment, physicists are 



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getting first consideration for positions. The University 
of Oregon itself has already furnished trained men to the 
great electrical companies — men who have been released 
from the draft to give the benefit of their trained minds to 
the problems of practical electrical science. 

The physics department occupies almost the whole of 
two floors of historic Deady Hall, which are plentifully 
supplied with electrical and other equipment, experimental 
apparatus, dark rooms, and everything else needed for work, 
from the most elementary to the most advanced. 

Courses in photography are becoming increasingly im- 
portant in these days of trained observation. Along this 
line the University is offering work in methods and appli- 
ances. The work includes both theory and practice. 




DELVING DEEP IN LEGAL LORE 

University Law Library is here shown. This library and classrooms are situated on the top floor of 

Oregon hall, the new education building. Additions are frequent to this already well-stocked library. 

Students in foreground; faculty members in background. 



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WOMEN'S NEW HALL OF RESIDENCE 
Interior and exterior of Hendricks hall, new hall of residence for Oregon women students. Ultimately 
the hall is to be devoted exclusively to the housing of first-year women. Since the opening of the hall, 
early in the spring, it has been available as a living-place for women of all the classes in the University. 
Hendricks hall, ereded at a cost of $50,000, is recognized as better equipped and furnished than any 
other student living quarters. At the left of the pi&ure is shown the old hall of residence for women, 
Mary Spiller hall, named for the first dean of women at the University. It is now used to house the 
household arts department. 



Psychology 



/^\NE of the surprises of the war — to all but the trained 
^^^ psychologist — has been the practical use made of psy- 
chology by the war and navy departments of the United 
States. Every large cantonment has its corps of mind spe- 
cialists who make mental measurements of the man power 



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available for military purposes and supervise the placing 
of this man power where its individual units will do the 
most good. Men are assigned to various arms of the ser- 
vice in accordance with the findings made by the military 
psychologists, and the result is a working force whose units 
are placed where their mental and physical makeup indi- 
cates they can be of most service. 

The extent to which this work has progressed may be 
seen from the fact that one of the two men in the Oregon 
department last year was taken by the government and has 
now been engaged in that work for several months, and his 
successor also was recently inducted into the psychological 
service, for the giving of mental measurements.. The head 
of the department himself has been allowed to remain at 
his post in Oregon only because the war department has 
recognized the necessity of continuing the training of ex- 
perts who, so far as is humanly possible, are expected to 
keep the square pegs out of the round holes in the army 
and navy. 

This same policy of making scientific surveys of em- 
ployes, has been followed by the larger corporations, which 
are depending on it more and more to increase the efficien- 
cy of their working forces. Thus, from a supposedly aca- 




UNIVERSITY BAND 
Perhaps the greatest source of student enthusiasm in connection with all activities outside the classroom 
is the University band. It has been Oregon's good fortune, due to the high quality of the instruction, 
always to have a good band. "Making the band" is one of the most coveted honors a student can win 
while in college, and the standard of appreciation of its musical efforts is high among the student body. 




OUTDOOR SPORTS POPULAR 

In one of the pictures an Oregon baseball player is shown making a hit in a game with O. A. C. The opposing 

catcher is seen ready to catch the ball, which, however is intercepted by the bat. In one of the other views is seen 

a pole vaulter practicing, and in the third, one of Oregon's athletes is going over the bar in the high jump. 



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demic plaything of savants a few years ago psychology has 
come more and more to be recognized as of the highest 
practical value in widening knowledge regarding the hu- 
man element which, ultimately, is the deciding factor in 
the success or failure of most of our earthly enterprises. 

Knowledge of psychology is of large use to persons go- 
ing into reconstruction work. The rebuilding of those 
whose mental equipment has suffered that strange paraly- 
sis known as shell shock is the task peculiarly of the psy- 
chologist. Much regrettable suffering and loss was occa- 
sioned early in the war from the ignorance displayed in 
treating such cases. 

The University of Oregon has a well-equipped labora- 
tory and facilities for the study of this science which is do- 
ing so much to prevent the waste of human talent and re- 
sources. 

Household Arts 

Y' OU want to help the government by saving food. How 
to do it intelligently is the question. The answer is 
supplied in the work of the department of Household Arts 
in the University of Oregon. It's an answer in which in- 
telligence and training are necessarily combined. 

Success attending the first year of the courses has re- 
sulted in the enlargement both of quarters and faculty for 
next year. No department of the University has thrown 
itself more whole-heartedly into the war than has this one, 
which has been able to do so much to spread the gospel of 
intelligent and economical food saving in these days when 
the quantity of food on hand may spell the difference be- 
tween victory and defeat for the forces of civilization in 
the world conflict. 

Both in classroom and in public lectures this department 
has cooperated with the food administration in directing 
intelligent food preparation and food substitution. 

The work of this department will be constantly expand- 
ed to meet the demands and needs of the young women of 
Oregon. The attention of girls desiring useful, practical 



32 At "Oregon" 

courses is directed to this fine work. Among the new 
courses next term, work will be offered in sewing, textiles, 
and care of children. 

Commerce 

T IKE the other schools and departments of the Univer- 

sity, the School of Commerce in these war days is strain- 
ing its facilities to meet the emergency demands of the na- 
tion. Added to the heavy peace-time call for trained men 
and women to enter business careers comes the demand for 
civil-service employes in vast numbers to handle the largely 
increased volume of government business resulting from 
the changed conditions. With the outbreak of the war, 
graduates in commerce found ready acceptance and quick 
promotion in several departments of the government. The 
schools of commerce are asked to cooperate in the work of 
training young men and women for this work, and the Uni- 
versity of Oregon, responding to this appeal, has installed 
emergency courses to fit students for a multitude of new 
positions. 

Meanwhile the regular work of the school in training 
for posts of leadership in the private business concerns of 
the country is being raised to constantly higher levels. The 
largest business concerns in the country select many of their 
employes from the schools of commerce,- making them man- 
agers of units in extensive organizations. 

To meet these demands on the part of business, the 
School of Commerce of the University is giving courses de- 
signed to give thorough preparation to young men and wo- 
men for work in accounting, fire and life insurance, bank- 
ing, retail store management, foreign and domestic com- 
merce and kindred lines. Suggested collateral courses in 
other departments are industrial economics, principles of 
economics, economic geography, modern foreign language, 
English. 

One of the important features of the work of the School 
of Commerce is its department of commercial and indus- 
trial service, which works in conjunction with the bureau 



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33 



of foreign commerce of the government, gathering statis- 
tics and other information for the benefit of the business 
men of the state. 

War conditions have widened the field for women in 
business occupations. Office management, salesmanship, 
accounting, are open more than ever to the trained woman. 
To the ambitious and energetic young woman is given a spe- 
cial invitation to avail herself of the training given in the 
School of Commerce, to fit herself for the positions which 
men are leaving for military service. 



School of Medicine 

/^HEAP, poor doctors, someone has said, mean fat grave- 
yards. Schools of medicine are the foes of this men- 
acing unskill, which is nowhere else so dangerous as in the 
profession on whose knowledge and ability public health 
depends. 




UNIVERSITY WOMEN'S BAND 

This organization is unique among the universities of the west. In fadt, it is perhaps the only organization 

of its kind in the country. The girls played for a dance within a month of their first meeting, though 

many of them had never before played a musical instrument. 



34 



At "Oregon" 




THE TWO GLEE CLUBS 
The men's and women's glee clubs, here shown, are two of the most popular organizations on the campus. 
Singing at assemblies and at vesper services, when they merge as the University choir, they have won the 
hearts of the student body. Trips about the state are arranged, almost every year. These events are a 
source of much delight to the members of the clubs, and to "make the glee club" is an enviable distinction. 



The School of Medicine of the University of Oregon, sit- 
uated in Portland, will start the 1918-1919 term with the 
best prospects in its history. The old, outgrown quarters 
at Twenty-first avenue and Love joy street will be given up 
during the summer for the new fire-proof building on 



A Story of Opportunity 35 

Marquam hill, which is the first unit of a group of medical 
and hospital buildings designed to make the institution the 
Johns Hopkins of the west. The first unit is costing $115,- 
000, of which $90,000 was appropriated by the legislature 
and the remainder raised by public subscription in Portland. 
Architecturally, the building was erected for utility and 
service, and in the opinion of the designers represents the 
last dollar's worth of service value that could have been 
placed into a building costing the sum expended on this 
one. 

The school is already proving its military utility. Sev- 
eral members of the faculty of last year, including two for- 
mer assistant deans, are already in the service, and the 
ranks of its graduates have supplied many medical men 
for army and navy. Seventeen of the twenty-one members 
of the 1918 class have enlisted in the medical service of 
the navy. 

In the new quarters the school will be able to accommo- 
date 150 students, or sixty more than in the old location. 
Through its connection with the hospitals of Portland and 
the free public clinic, the Oregon School of Medicine is able 
to offer to its students an adequate amount of observation 
and bedside experience, fitting them thoroughly for the pro- 
fession for which there is at present such a tremendous de- 
mand, both in the military service and in the home country, 
which has been so seriously denuded of its physicians and 
surgeons to care for the emergency needs of the front. The 
need for trained men in medicine is one which is going to 
grow for many years, and the opportunity to train for it is 
offered the young men of all the Northwestern states. Sev- 
enty of the leading men of the profession in Portland are 
members of the faculty. 

The requisite pre-medical instruction can most conve- 
niently be obtained on the campus of the University at Eu- 
gene, whose scientific departments are well equipped for 
this work. 



36 At "Oregon" 



School of Journalism 



HP HE hit-or-miss "game" of a former generation, learned 
by haphazard methods in the slow and costly school of 
experience, has become a recognized profession, as exacting 
in its ethical and practical demands as the law or medicine. 
The power of the press for good or evil is recognized today, 
as never before, and more than ever is there a demand for 
proper education and training as prerequisites in the man 
or woman who would wield the tremendous power given 
by the strategic position as editor of a newspaper. 

A few years ago, it will be remembered, old newspaper- 
men believed that their profession could not be taught in 
the University. This is an outworn view, and today news- 
paper editors and publishers recruit their editorial and 
business staffs, to a constantly increasing extent, from the 
ranks of the graduates in journalism. Graduates of the 
University of Oregon School of Journalism are holding re- 
sponsible positions on newspapers in all parts of Oregon 
and adjoining states, and making good. Oregon's gradu- 
ates are harder to find in the newspaper offices than they 
were a year ago, it is true, for the reason that ninety per 
cent of the young men have entered the military service of 
the government, and the old journalistic haunts will know 
them no more until they have finished their little job of 
helping remove the Prussian menace. 

Into the breach have stepped the keen, self-reliant, cour- 
ageous young women of the state. They are demonstrat- 
ing, in many parts of the country, their entire ability to 
handle newspaper positions and even to conduct the smaller 
publications without the directing hand of a man. The 
University of Oregon School of Journalism has made a spe- 
cial effort to train young women to help save the newspa- 
per situation in the present emergency, and the prospect 
is hopeful., 

As a matter of fact, the journalism school here has little 
of the classroom atmosphere about it. The students get a 
great deal of real, practical experience in newspaper-making 
and book-making as a part of their regular training in the 



A Story of Opportunity 37 

four years of their work in the school. After a preliminary 
course in English as applied to journalism, the student be- 
gins his course in "the shop." Like Benjamin Franklin, 
Horace Greeley and other great men of the craft, he works 
at the printer's case, and he (or she) learns those intimate 
facts of the trade that were supposed to be the exclusive 
property of the man who "began at the bottom." 

In a modern printing plant, which includes a latest mod- 
el Linotype and an Optimus press, the student learns about 
the machinery used 1 in the publishing business ; he gets the 
splendid training in accuracy that comes from setting type, 
reading proof and correcting his own and other people's 
mistakes. Accounting and cost-finding systems worked 
out for the scientific printer are also explained to him. The 
University Press, a department of the School of Journalism, 
handles the University printing, a volume of business large 
enough to give the student practical insight into almost 
every kind of work he is likely to be called upon to do in 
his early years as a newspaperman. 

In his junior year the student is a reporter under an 
instructor who occupies the position of "city editor." As- 
signments are given and stories written under careful su- 
pervision. Much of the student's work is printed in the 
newspapers of the various cities of the state, in magazines 
and other publications. In the same year, too, comes the 
induction of the student into the mysteries of "copyread- 
ing" and headline-writing, and newspaper makeup. He 
also learns to analyze the news of the world, separating 
the important from the trivial, the constructive from the 
sensational, and the really interesting from that which is 
merely routine. 

Editing, selecting and interpreting is the work of the 
senior in the school. The weekly news bulletin of the Uni- 
versity is issued by the class in editing, as is also Oregon 
Exchanges, a monthly magazine devoted to the interests 
of the newspapermen of the state. Business management 
is treated intensively also in the senior year. 



38 At "Oregon" 

School of Education 

'"p RAINING of high school teachers and principals and 
city school administration officers is the special work 
of the School of Education. Never has there been such a 
tremendous demand for trained school teachers, principals 
and superintendents as today. The men holding these po- 
sitions have been going into the army in droves, and the 
work of replacing them with properly trained material is 
taxing the resources of the School of Education. 

Special courses in school administration, open to both 
men and women, are given to meet this war emergency. 
Under present conditions, most of those taking the course 
are women, and the result will be a large number of trained 
women ready to keep the state's educational machinery 
geared up to its highest possible point during these days of 
emergency. 

The demand for the high school teachers and principals 
and city superintendents apparently is to run ahead of the 
supply for some time, owing to the war conditions. The 
University maintains an appointments bureau, which rec- 
ommends applicants for teaching positions on the basis of 
their record in the institution and their probable fitness. 
The committee in charge seeks to divert to other lines of 
endeavor the weak students in the School of Education, at- 
tempting thus to maintain and increase the instructional 
strength of the schools of Oregon. The service of the ap- 
pointments bureau is free. 

A minimum of fifteen hours' work in education is re- 
quired before a student can get a certificate for high school 
work, in conformity with state law. Education courses of- 
lered undergraduates in the University are principles of 
education, pedagogical psychology, secondary education, 
school administration, practice teaching, history of mod- 
ern education, genetic psychology, observation of teaching, 
organization of curricula. Besides the education courses, 
regular work must be taken in a wide range of university 
subjects, and specialists are trained in chemistry, physics, 



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39 



biology, geology, botany, civics, history, ancient and mod- 
ern languages, mathematics, commerce, physical training, 
music and art. 

The School of Education serves practically three classes 
of students — those who want to teach such courses as his- 
tory, English and allied branches; those specializing in 
physical training, art, music and other subjects outside the 
regular routine curriculum ; and those fitting themselves to 
become principals or superintendents. Training of defec- 
tive children, junior high school work, and the development 
of standard tests in spelling, arithmetic, composition and 
handwriting are lines of educational activity in which in- 
struction is offered. 




LISTENING TO READING OF A NEW PLAY 

Section of class in dramatic interpretation, assembled on stage of Little Theatre in Guild Hall. 

Instructor, on extreme right, is reading the new play. 



40 At "Oregon" 

School of Law 

\V7 AR conditions have been fully recognized at the School 
™ of Law. A course added in the last year is one on 
military law and those other branches of law in which the 
war will make special changes. The effect on international 
law is generally sensed, and consideration of the conflict 
of laws and of changes in contract laws and business law 
in general through the effects of war is a part of the course 
as now given. 

Regular law courses are given in all their former 
strength, and in addition a course in business law is re- 
ceiving a heavy enrollment of women. One of the regular 
students taking work this year for a law degree is a wo- 
man. The increased interest taken by women in law and 
business subjects is one of the signs of the times. 

Whether one is entering the legal profession or going 
into business, a thorough training in the law increases the 
brightness of one's prospects. The demands of both law 
and business, however, grow constantly more exacting, and 
success in the law now means not only good character, but 
long, hard, intensive training. The day of the superficial, 
ill-prepared practitioner is gone. 

The Law School of the University of Oregon set a high 
standard from the outset. Two full years of college work 
are required of virtually all regular students who are to 
become candidates for law degrees. 

Everything necessary to preparation for high attain- 
ment in the law will be found in the University of Oregon 
School of Law. A fine working law library of several thou- 
sand volumes is conveniently disposed for instantaneoeus 
reference. All the important legal periodicals, both current 
numbers and bound volumes, are at hand. This library is 
constantly growing ; several important additions were made 
within the last year. Within easy reach of the book shelves 
are well-lighted study tables with seating capacity for forty 
students. The subjects given vary somewhat from year 
to year, covering all the main topics of the law. 



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41 



The student learns thoroughly and from the first the 
law of the state of Oregon, in which, in most cases, he is 
to practice. The student learns also the peculiarities of 
practice in his own state — an acquisition whose value is 
recognized by lawyers. A further advantage afforded at 





INDOOR GYMNASTICS AND OUTDOOR SPORTS 

Class of girls using new gymnastic equipment in indoor gymnasium is seen in lower picture. The other 

shows girls' hockey team at practice. 




WHERE THE STUDENTS LIVE 

Group of fraternity and sorority houses, where a large number of the young men and young women of the 

University live during their days at Oregon. 



A Story of Opportunity 43 

the University of Oregon lies in the fact that the classes 
have not yet become so large that, as is so often the case 
in the larger schools of the East, the individual contact 
with the instructor is lost. 

As the interest taken by women in the law increases, 
further encouragement is given them to enter the classes 
at Oregon, with satisfactory results in the quality of work 
done. 



Public Speaking 



TN a war year it is quite needless to emphasize the value 

to be obtained from this branch of work, either for man 
or woman. Scarcely anyone of consequence in the land has 
failed of the opportunity to "speak for his colors," and in 
addition to public service of such variety there has been 
an added demand for entertainers, especially along dramatic 
lines. 

The work of the Public Speaking department consists 
of Dramatic Interpretation and Voice Culture, and Or- 
atory and Debate. 

Experiments made by our greatest educators have re- 
sulted in the placing of a golden seal of approval upon par- 
ticipation in the acted drama as a most potent factor in in- 
dividual development. 

It is now seven years since this kind of study was intro- 
duced into the curriculum of the University, and the growth 
of its importance may be gauged by the fact that, although 
an elective course, the number of students enrolled has 
grown from twelve, the original number in the class, to a 
four years' course embracing one-fifth of the entire student 
body. 

The objective is not training for a stage career, unless 
we agree with Shakespeare that "All the world's a stage." 
For, the student who has successfully mastered a good part 
in a good play, learned to coach a play, attended to its light- 
ing, scenery, costuming, trained other students in voice 
culture and platform manner, has acquired a pretty consid- 



44 At "Oregon" 

erable knowledge of several sides of life and has more than 
one trade at his finger ends besides his profession. 

In other words, the acted drama is in itself an all-around 
education, and especially since the high schools have had 
the problem of "plays" to consider, it is a necessary part 
of the prospective teacher's training that he should under- 
stand how to coach a play. 

Accompanying this work are courses in pure voice cul- 
ture, reading and recitation, and analysis. Students pre- 
paring for platform readers or public speakers, lyceum or 
chautauqua entertainers make use of this branch of study, 
as well as availing themselves of the dramatic work. 

The objective of work in Oratory and Debate is the train- 
ing of students to effective oral composition and delivery. 
Life in a modern democratic community, or nation, calls 
upon the college-trained man again and again to rise under 
emergencies and express himself. 

The extempore speech method — where the speaker, by 
previous study, has become master of his subject matter, so 
that he can present it without notes, without memorizing 
anything but the ideas to be presented — is practically the 
sole method of instruction in oratory and debate. 

It may be interesting to add that our faculty and stu- 
dents in this department have served the great cause in 
many ways — as four-minute speakers, canvassers for the 
Liberty Loan, and in other forms of public address, while 
our dramatic students have taken charge of community en- 
tertainments for Red Cross benefits at the same time mak- 
ing hundreds of dollars themselves for the same beneficia- 
ries on the home campus. 

The department has its own "little theater" complete 
in every detail, and here plays are regularly produced in 
public, almost invariably for charity, as well as supporting 
the running expenses. The business manager is a woman 
student, who in this way earns her support in college. 



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History 



'""pHE war has imposed upon teachers of history every- 
where a special responsibility. All the world is seek- 
ing in history the explanation of its origin; the allies are 
looking to the history of the would-be conquerers like Alex- 
ander and Napoleon for a justification of their confidence 
in the ability of free nations to maintain their freedom 
against the present day aspirant for world dominion; and 
we in America have the special interest of seeking in the 
past of our own nation those vital impulses which aligned 
the United States with France, Britain and Italy in the fu- 
rious struggle against the German aggressor. 

The war has made all history new, for every phase of 
it must now be examined in the light of today's problems. 
This fact imparts a new zeal to the study of the older 
courses, many of which are continued. But there are also 
new courses — backgrounds of the war, lectures on the war, 
etc. — for the benefit of students who want an interpreta- 
tion of the stupendous phenomenon which is engrossing the 
interest of all. Besides, the department is doing much to 
prepare teachers of history for high schools; and, by way 
of special war service, the professors of history are devot- 
ing much time both as writers and lecturers toward assist- 
ing the general public to get the interpretation of the war 
that they deem the correct one. 



School of Music 

'"pHE great problem which has confronted the School of 
Music during the last year has been to keep the regu- 
lar work up to its standard of efficiency and at the same 
time to contribute in all possible ways to the activities re- 
sulting from the war situation. 

Two members of our teaching staff are with the colors, 
another is in industrial war work. The band, orchestra 
and glee clubs have assisted at the various patriotic cere- 



46 At "Oregon" 

monies — in fact, the whole work of the school has been 
undertaken with the seriousness of purpose demanded by 
the times. 

First and foremost, the school stands for the idea of 
music as a part of a liberal education. Students may make 
it a major subject for the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Then 
there is the professional school. In this department, stu- 
dents feature work in music to a much greater degree than 
is possible for the Arts degree. To such students the de- 
gree of Bachelor of Music is awarded. Instruction is also 
provided for those wishing to become proficient upon some 
instrument. Such students belong to the special depart- 
ment. 

In recognition of the obligation to carry University work 
to those who find it impossible to come to Eugene, an ex- 
tension branch has been established in Portland. This, in 
addition to the general extension service provided, has made 
it possible for the school to know the musical conditions of 
the state and to devise ways for remedying existing evils. 
A definition of the "entrance credit in music" is one of the 
most important contributions which the school has made 
to the people of the state. This is intended as a protection 
against the incompetent teacher. As a further step in the 
serving of the larger musical interests of the state, special 
attention has been given to the training of teachers of 
music for the public schools. There has been a five hun- 
dred per cent increase in this department this year owing 
to the unexcelled advantages offered. 

There are at present twenty-two members of the teach- 
ing staff, and, in round numbers, five hundred students, 
three hundred of whom are to be found on the campus. 
There are maintained two glee clubs and an orchestra. Aside 
from their value in the musical life of the University, these 
organizations afford opportunity for pleasant and profitable 
diversion. 



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47 



Architecture and the Arts 

'-p HE practical nature of the subjects taught in the School 
of Architecture and the Arts may be illustrated per- 
haps by the fact that several of the instructors and former 
students in the department are now in lines of military 
work for which their training has fitted them. Engineers, 
draughtsmen, camoufleurs, all are serving the government 
more efficiently by reason of the training given them in the 
school here. One of the instructorships is held by the third 
man who has been in the position this year. The other 
two are now in the service of the country. 

But it is not only in the work of war that the Oregon- 
trained architects are to be of the most vital usefulness. 
Already the question of reconstructing the war-torn lands 
after peace shall have come has been taken up, and the de- 
mand for thoroughly trained architects is going to be en- 
hanced manyfold. In Oregon today, large areas are with- 
out competent architects. 

Architecture is just as much a profession as medi- 
cine, the law, or the ministry, since it is of direct service 
to the public and since its by-products are of such communal 
importance. 




OREGON'S ELEVEN IN ACTION 

Exciting moment in big game. Halfback (at right) taking ball for fake run around end. Almost all the 

men here shown are now in army, navy or marines. 



48 At "Oregon" 

The training offered in the school is of broad cultural 
value and fits the student not only for architecture but for 
a career as contractor or engineer. During the three 
years of its existence a high standard of scholarship has 
been upheld, as evidenced from the high rating given the 
work of its students by the jury of the Beaux Arts Insti- 
tute of Design, of New York, where during the last year 
a first mention was won. Here the work is shown in com- 
petition with that of other schools in the country. 

More and more will there be demanded by the schools 
of Oregon the services of trained art teachers. Courses 
have been organized to meet this demand and are given in 
connection with normal courses offered by the school of ed- 
ucation. An increased demand for trained designers also 
is expected with the steady improvement in standards of 
appreciation of the beautiful. This field includes wall paper 
design, furniture, textiles, commercial advertising and 
craftsmanship. With the development of the resources of 
Oregon and new manufactures of Oregon products, such as 
wool, flax, willow, hard woods, etc., the need for such 
trained designers will be ever more acutely felt. 



Astronomy 



TN perhaps larger measure than some other sciences, as- 
tronomy has its cultural as well as its practical side. 
The engineer who takes measurements and the mariner 
who steers a ship are alike indebted to practical astronomy 
for that accuracy in their work on which human life as 
well as safety and convenience depends. On its cultural 
side, the science offers the widest opportunity for thinking 
in terms as large as worlds and their creation and for grasp- 
ing many of the treasures of literature. Both general, or 
descriptive, and practical courses in astronomy are given. 
The allied subjects of mechanics, analytical and applied, and 
the theory of elasticity and hydrodynamics also are taught 
in this department. Instruction is given in the use of the 
telescope and other instruments. 



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Ancient Languages 

'"pHOROUGH education in these days presupposes at least 
some knowledge of ancient languages and literature. 
While no longer regarded as so essential as in former years, 
it is still considered thoroughly advisable and an important 
element in broad general culture. Even in these ultra- 
practical days, there is no reason why the old classics should 
be cast aside or ignored, for an educated man is still one 
who "knows something about everything and everything 
about something.'' Teachers and all who enter literary 
pursuits will find this training particularly valuable. Knowl- 
edge of the old languages and literatures is of value to writ- 
ers, assisting them both as to content and as to form — both 
adding to what they say and increasing their power of say- 
ing it clearly, interestingly and therefore effectively. Ad- 
equate opportunity for the study of the old languages and 
classics is afforded at the University of Oregon. 



Modern Languages 



1WTORE immediately or, at least, more obviously practical, 
in their use are the modern languages and literature. 
These are recognized, more today than ever, as essential 
to an efficient working education. War times are bringing 
demands for more and more men who understand the lan- 
guages of Europe, and even with the return of peace the 
world will have become so much more closely knit in its 
commercial relations that a knowledge of several languages 
will give young people an advantage in taking up work as 
foreign trade representatives — an expanding vocation. The 
methods employed in the University of Oregon lend them- 
selves to both ends in the study of languages — the knowl- 
edge of the literature and the ability to converse in the lan- 
guage. French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German and 
the Scandinavian tongues all are taught in the most ap- 
proved methods. 

The man of science realizes how rich a store of printed 
information is opened to him through a knowledge of mod- 



50 At "Oregon" 

ern languages. Many of the greatest works in several lines 
of science are written in foreign language, without adequate 
translation into English. 



English 



"WTTTH an increasing number of former students in the 
English department of the University entering the 
field of professional writing of poetry, the short story and 
the drama, the training given here is beginning to bear 
more conspicuous fruit. The development of professional 
writers, however, is not the sole aim of the department. A 
general raising of the level of appreciation of literature 
and of ability to express thoughts clearly and attractively 
has been the general goal of the department, and this is 
sought through a comprehensive set of theoretical and prac- 
tical courses. 

Meanwhile the department is fitting itself into the dom- 
inant needs of the country in the prosecution of the war, 
so far as the limitations of the subjects will permit. A tech- 
nical course is given in military organization. This enables 
a better understanding of the technical terms used in the 
army, facilitating the grasp of military reports and fitting 
the women students in particular for more efficient auxili- 
ary service in connection with the war. Finally, a course 
is given in the literature of the war, giving attention to the 
prose and poetry written about its various phases or in- 
spired by the effect of the great conflict on contemporary 
life and ideals. 



Philosophy 



A ND what of philosophy in these days of hard, practical 
*~* things? It is not going to be forgotten that Prussian 
autocracy was able to poison the mind and sear the soul of 
a whole people by a systematic and persistent preaching of 
materialistic philosophy in the institutions of higher learn- 
ing. This by way of emphasizing the importance of phi- 
losophy in general and the right sort of philosophy in par- 



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51 



ticular. One cannot escape philosophy whether one will or 
no. Properly to understand it means the sort of sympa- 
thetic interest which unlocks for the student the mysteries 
of much of the best in literature and art and helps in the 
understanding of one's fellow creatures and of the trend 
of civilization. Courses include introduction to philosophy 
and history of philosophy, with the culture courses in ethics, 
esthetics, and present-day thought. 

Athletics for Men 

/^\NE of the notable results of the war in college life has 
^^ been the stimulus given athletics. While it is true that 
intercollegiate sports have been heavily curtailed as a re- 
sult of the depletion of the best material, which has gone 
over almost en masse into the army, still the impetus given 
intramural sports, the idea of athletics for everyone in col- 
lege, has been hopefully marked. Nowhere has this ten- 







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SUN DIAL ATTRACTS 
Three girl students snapped while gathered around the sun dial in front of Johnson hall. Note the 
luxuriantly flowering hawthorn in the background. Flowers and flowering shrubs have made the 

Oregon campus famous. 



52 At "Oregon" 

dency to give every young man the fullest opportunity for 
the development that comes from participation in sports 
and games been more pronounced than at the University 
of Oregon, where the acting head of the athletic department 
has devoted the greater part of his energies for months 
to the development of this plan in athletics. No longer is 
there room for the old criticism that participation in col- 
lege athletics was confined to the strong who did not need 
it, while the weaker and less skillful who could have been 
vastly helped were relegated to the rooter section, becoming 
spectators rather than participants. 

Here, then, is the opportunity to develop what little abil- 
ity one may have in baseball, football, track and field sports, 
basketball, handball, swimming, wrestling, games and sports 
which are invaluable in building up the kind of physique 
which will stand the demands of strenuous days in war and 
peace. Not for the sports' sake, but for the effect on the in- 
dividual — an effect recognized by the government as most 
desirable in the development of an efficient citizenship. 

In the field of intercollegiate sport, the old Oregon fight 
has won deserved fame. With a student body smaller than 
that of some of its competitors, and a corresponding rela- 
tive shortage of material, Oregon teams have been victori- 
ous on many hard-fought fields. In the production of this 
fortunate result have been combined such factors as ade- 
quate equipment, wholesome living conditions and intelli- 
gent, skilled training and coaching. 

Athletics for Women 

TN the case of the women, even more than in that of the 
men, is the development of adequate physique highly de- 
sirable, and the department of hygiene and physical educa- 
tion has for its aim the development of the health and 
strength of the young women who come to Oregon for their 
higher education. It is recognized that the value of edu- 
cation is reduced if the bodily equipment be not equal to 
its task, and the aim is to make the women's physiques equal 
to the strain of their college work, sending them out, not 



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PAINTING THE "O" 
Each year at Junior Week-end the time-honored ceremonial of painting the enormous "O" which looks 
down upon Eugene from the summit of Skinner's butte is delegated to a group of freshmen, under the 
watchful supervision of uoperclass police. The "O" painted lemon-yellow, the painters themselves are 
duly "decorated," after which they hasten back to be in time for the big feed on the campus — the regular 
campus lunch provided for those who toil for their University on that day. 

depleted in nervous force and bodily vigor, but actually 
stronger and more efficient than when they entered the por- 
tals of Oregon. 



Campus Life 



TS everybodee happee?" queries the yell leader in shrill 
rising tones; and the chorus of "Y-e-a" from hundreds 
of throats is an expression of one big ingredient in the 
composition of student life at Oregon. Even in these days 
of war the students, many of whom are on the eve of de- 
parting for the war zone, are not cast down. They are seri- 
ous, yes; more serious than ever before, but not sad — al- 
ways ready to see the sunny side of things. 

The campus atmosphere is thoroughly democratic. The 
wholesome comradeship among students, and, even, between 
students and faculty, is one of the first things noted by the 
newcomer the first day he strolls past the ivy-clad walls of 
old Villard and down through Hello Lane. This impres- 
sion grows ; old Oregon takes its grip of the heart, and the 



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At "Oregon' 





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SPORT ON THE OLD MILL RACE 
Exciting canoe race at Junior Week-end. The mill race furnishes opportunity for many delightful hours 

of aquatic sports. 



loyalty of her sons and daughters goes with them through- 
out life. 

No social squabbles, no fraternity and anti-fraternity 
rows mar the fellowship of Oregon men and women. Sim- 
plicity reigns. Boys working their way through the Uni- 
versity not only lose nothing in social standing, but in fact 
are the more looked up to and sought after, as made of the 
right stuff. There have been numerous fraternity men who 
have helped pay their way by washing dishes and waiting 
on table for their fraternity brothers, and the same is true 
of sorority women. 

One of the things that strikes a newcomer to the Oregon 
campus is the singing spirit of Oregon men and women. 
Fraternity men frequently surround their meals with song, 
with often a verse or two thrown into the middle of the din- 
ner for good measure. This spontaneous, ringing music 
reflects the spirit of Oregon comradeship and good will. 

Plenty of opportunity is afforded for social life — all the 
way from the informal week-end affairs to the less frequent 
and more pretentious events like the junior prom. War 
conditions have brought about a marked decrease in formal 
social activity this year, but the informal social life has not 



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suffered. Campus musical, dramatic and forensic organiza- 
tions add much to the attractiveness of life at the Univer- 
sity. 

Extravagance is foreign to the democratic spirit that 
prevails at Oregon, and, in general, the sons and daughters 
of wealthty parents live as plainly and economically as 
those working their way. Total expenses of fraternity men 
for the nine months' term generally approximate $350, 
while ten per cent of the student body still get through the 
year on $300 or less. Instances have been found of "bach- 
ing" students whose total living expenses ran less than $12 
a month. 

Nearly two-thirds of the University of Oregon students 
are paying at least part of their way through college, work- 
ing at a wide range of vocations. 

All-around conditions of life around the tree-clad cam- 
pus and the historic ivy-clad halls are well-nigh ideal, with 
the steadying quiet in which the best kind of intellectual 
work can be done. For work or recreation, Oregon offers 
delightful opportunity. 







UNIVERSITY OF OREGON BULLETI 

New Series May, 1918 Vol. XV, No. 8 

Published monthly by the University of Oregon and entered at the postoirke in 
Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter 



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